Your Whispering Spot

In 1956 environmentalist Sigurd Olson built a small cabin on the banks of a lake in northern Minnesota. The naming of lake homes is customary in the land ...

Film Director Goes to Church to be Bored

Paul Schrader is the writer and director of the film First Reformed, which centers on a divorced minister who is experiencing a crisis of faith related ...

Lamppost Airbags Protect 'Smartphone Zombies'

The city of Salzburg in Austria is implementing some creative measures to protect public safety from oblivious pedestrians staring at their smartphones. ...

Costly Damages Traced to Reckless Gamers Doing Good Thing Badly

A study released by researchers at Purdue University recently traced millions of damages to users behaving recklessly in their attempts to play the massively ...

Waffle House 'Selfie-Service' Shows Audacious Initiative

Hungry patron Alex Bowen waited for 10 minutes to order during a recent visit to a Waffle House at 2am; then he took matters into his own hands.

Upon finding ...

How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds

The Wall Street Journal reports that Adrian Ward, a cognitive psychologist and marketing professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has been studying ...

'Silent Song' Makes it to the Top 50 on iTunes

An unusual song has emerged next to the hottest new albums and multi-platinum artists on iTunes' Top 50 charts. The track, which costs $0.99, is titled ...

Police Academy Uses Rubber Chicken to Help Recruits Focus

Police academies are known to involve rigorous physical and mental tests in their curriculum to ensure that recruits are prepared for the harshness of ...

The Internet Trains Us toward Superficial Thinking

Nicholas Carr, an expert on how technology is shaping our minds and lives, lamented how the Internet is, in his words, "chipping away at [his] capacity ...

When Companies Lose Focus, New Products Flop

The 24/7 Wall St. blog reviewed some of the greatest product launch blunders in recent times, including Google Glass, Burger King's Satisfries, the New ...